Stephen Spender Quotes
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Sir Stephen Harold Spender was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965. Wikipedia

✵ 28. February 1909 – 16. July 1995

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Stephen Spender Quotes

“More beautiful and soft than any moth
With burring furred antennae feeling its huge path
Through dusk, the air-liner with shut-off engines
Glides over suburbs and the sleeves set trailing tall
To point the wind. Gently, broadly, she falls,
Scarcely disturbing charted currents of air.”

Stephen Spender

"The Landscape near an Aerodrome"
Poems (1933)

“I say, stamping the words with emphasis,
Drink from here energy and only energy”

Stephen Spender

"Not Palaces" (l. 8–9).

“Our single purpose was to walk through snow
With faces swung to their prodigious North
Like compass iron.”

Stephen Spender

"Polar Exploration"
The Still Centre (1939)

“At dawn she lay with her profile at that angle
Which, when she sleeps, seems the carved face of an angel.”

Stephen Spender

"Daybreak"

“All the posters on the walls
All the leaflets in the streets
Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain,
Their words blotted out with tears,
Skins peeling from their bodies
In the victorious hurricane.”

Stephen Spender

"Fall of a City"
Selected Poems (1941)